In spite of EA saying the original "under-performed," a sequel to Bulletstorm was in the works at People Can Fly before being cancelled by parent company Epic Games reports GameSpot, who hear from Epic president Mike Capps on the topic. Mike indicates they have put the Polish developer on a different project they will "be announcing pretty soon," though there is no clue if this is the recently revealed PC game Epic is planning. "We thought a lot about a sequel, and had done some initial development on it, but we found a project that we thought was a better fit for People Can Fly," he said. "We haven't announced that yet, but we will be announcing it pretty soon." He goes on to praise Bulletstorm and says he'd love to go back to the property, "but right now we don't have anything to talk about." Just to stir the pot a little, the story concludes with Capps' comment that sales of the PC version may have been harmed by piracy: "We made a PC version of Bulletstorm, and it didn't do very well on PC and I think a lot of that was due to piracy. It wasn't the best PC port ever, sure, but also piracy was a pretty big problem."

If you ask me the whole "it's not really a problem" apologist shit is the real naive side. Piracy is a massive issue.

An excuse to regulate the internet? Probably, but like the wild west of old it has pretty much been proven that people can't control themselves with a free and unregulated internet.

A fairly lame comparison, people aren't murdering each other to steal copies of the latest Kelly Clarkson album on rapidshare. Your anecdotal account doesn't really justify internet wide censorship by corporations, many of which continue to post record profits year after year.

Has the internet made things easier to share? Sure but that's always been a problem. People love to create and we love to share. Most entertainment industries real problem with piracy was their continued obsession in fighting technological change in the face of consumer demand.

Spot on Verno. Piracy is being used again to draft CISPA, SOPA and PIPA's bigger brother, no pun intended. Piracy is being used as a lot of excuses and it's disingenuous to claim piracy is a huge problem when people like Gabe Newell, Notch and many indie developers accept piracy not as a problem but as potential customers. If everyone who is afflicted by piracy saw piracy as potential customers everyone would be better for it.

And as the latest Hadopi numbers show, strict draconian laws to prevent piracy do lower piracy but also lowers revenue of the entertainment industry a whole lot more than piracy and it also increases VPN communications, good luck on any government trying to spy on that.